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THE ALTIS SPEED SUMMIT
presented by
Breaking the Mold. Changing the Game. June 6-8, 2025 | Chicago, IL.
join the brightest minds
At ALTIS, we’ve built our reputation on small, personal events. That’s what we do best. Until now.
The ALTIS Speed Summit is different.
We’re bringing together the brightest minds in speed and team sport performance for a three-day, high-impact experience designed to challenge the way we think, train, and coach.
This isn’t just another conference.
Because let’s be honest—most conferences don’t change anything. They overload you with information, but they don’t change how you work, think, or coach.
This will.
This will be the most impactful speed event ever held.
But it’s not just about speed.
Speed is the thread that connects everything in team sport. It’s the difference-maker. It’s what separates good from great. But speed doesn’t exist in isolation—it lives within a complex ecosystem of coaching, movement, recovery, and programming.
That’s why we’re bringing together a diverse group of world-class experts from across multiple sports to the Welsh Ryan Arena in Chicago, IL, this June.
Coaches. Scientists. Athletes. Performance leaders. People who know what it takes to win.
This is your chance to be in the room with them.
I’ve always been frustrated by the typical conference experience. It’s a highlights package—curated soundbites, surface-level insights, and rushed networking that doesn’t really mean anything. That’s not how real learning happens.
So we’re doing things differently.
The ALTIS Speed Summit is built to change the game. No fluff, no filler—just deep, meaningful conversations, hands-on engagement, and real learning that sticks. We’ve designed this event to be the best speed conference ever held—and to set a new standard for how we share, connect, and grow in this industry.
- Stuart McMillan, CEO, ALTIS
THIS IS FOR YOU IF...
✅ You want to cut through the noise and focus on what truly matters in speed and team sport performance.
✅ You’re tired of superficial lectures and empty networking—you want real learning, real conversations, and real transformation.
✅ You want to hear from coaches, scientists, and performance leaders who actually work at the highest levels of sport—not just people who talk about it.
✅ You’re early-, mid-, or late-career and ready to accelerate your growth, expand your network, and take the next step in your coaching or performance journey.
✅ You want to walk away with clarity, confidence, and a blueprint to make an immediate impact.
What makes this different?
✔ It's built for impact. No passive listening-every session is designed for engagement, transformation, and action.
✔ It's about community. Forget "networking." This event is about real connections with like-minded coaches and practitioners.
✔ It's cross-disciplinary. speed isn't just sprinting. Speed is performance. Every speaker is an expert in their field, from football to rugby, soccer to basketball, hockey to baseball.
✔ It's going to change how you think. We're going deep-challenging conventional wisdom and breaking down what actually works.
In my 50 years of coaching, I’ve been to just about every kind of conference you can imagine—and most of them miss the mark. They scratch the surface but don’t truly impact how we coach and think.
We’re changing that.
The ALTIS Speed Summit is designed to be the best educational experience of its kind—something that actually moves the needle for coaches and practitioners.
- Dan Pfaff, Head Coach, ALTIS
how will this impact your practice?
✔ A new way of seeing speed—how it connects to every aspect of team sport performance.
✔ Insights that actually matter. No fluff. No filler. Just hard-earned lessons from the best in the world.
✔ A professional network that means something. Not just business cards, but real relationships with people who share your passion.
✔ Confidence to apply what you’ve learned—so you can make an immediate impact.
✔ The feeling that you were part of something big. Because this will be the most important speed conference ever held.
THE EXPERIENCE
This isn't a weekend of sitting back and taking notes.
This is a high-energy, immersive experience, featuring:
✅ Live talks and expert panels-from the biggest names in sport.
✅ Small-group breakout sessions-designed from real conversations and learning.
✅ Roundtable discussions-where big ideas are debated and challenged.
✅ Active experiences-from early-morning Lake Michigan plunges to pick up games and hands-on training sessions.
✅ A vibe like no other-with great music, great energy, and a real sense of community.
feel it. live it. be part of it.
This is your chance to be in the room with the top minds in coaching, performance, and sports science.
To think differently. To challenge yourself. To grow.
The ALTIS Speed Summit isn’t just another tick-box educational event.
It’s a line in the sand.
A new standard.
A lineup set to be one of the most dynamic and thought-provoking ever assembled for a sports education event.
World-class coaches, groundbreaking researchers, and elite practitioners—each bringing insights that will reshape the way you think about speed, performance, and athlete development.
your summit speakers
In addition to the live summit presentations and interactive sessions, every summit speaker will be recording a new and separate digital presentation that will be included in the price of your ticket.
SUMMIT SCHEDULE
Theme: Coaching
Guiding Question: "What matters most in coaching?"
2-3pm - Stuart McMillan - More is Different: Interactions That Shape Speed
3-3:45pm - Dan Pfaff - Programming and Return to Play: What truly matters when guiding athletes back to performance?
3:50-4:35pm - Jo Clubb - Beyond the Dashboard: Making Data Work for Coaching, Not Against It
4:40-5:25pm - Ramsey Nijem - Basketball Speed: Using Game Actions to Develop Faster Hoopers
5:30-7:00pm Roundtable Discussion
Guiding Question: “What do you believe, but cannot prove?”
A 90-minute conversation exploring the ideas, instincts, and hard-earned wisdom that shape coaching—beliefs forged through experience but not always backed by data.
How do these unproven convictions influence decision-making, and what role do they play in coaching at the highest level?
Featuring:
- Dan Pfaff
- Stuart McMillan
- Jo Clubb
- Ramsey Nijem
7-7.45pm Social event & gathering
Theme: Movement
Guiding Question: "What matters most in movement?"
8-8:45am - Cody Williamson - The Labyrinth of Movement in High Performance
8:50-9.35am - Carlin Isles - The Key to Movement & Speed
9:40-10:25am - Javier Miller-Estrada - This is Not a Drill: Developing Speed Through Problem Solving
10:30am-11:15am - Nicole Rodriguez - Transforming Movement Across the 3-Stages of Development
11.30-1pm - Breakout Sessions – Small Groups, Big Conversation
This 90-minute session is designed to challenge assumptions, surface blind spots, and push the boundaries of conventional coaching wisdom.
Participants will break into small groups, each facilitated by an experienced coach, creating an environment for intimate and emergent conversations.
Lunch break: 1-2:00pm
Theme: Returning to Play
Guiding Question: "What matters most in RTP?"
2-2:45pm - Tom Tombleson - What Else, Where Else?
2:50-3:35pm - Danny Foley - A Proactive Approach to Injury Management.
3:40-4:25pm - Stacey Hardin - In Season Return to Sport: Are Players Returning From Injury and Playing For Health and Availability, or Performance?
4:30-5:15pm - Loren Landow - Restoring Linear and COD Mechanics Post Lower Extremity Injury.
5:30-7pm - Roundtable discussion
Guiding question: "What big thing have you changed your mind on?"
A 90-minute conversation diving into how knowledge evolves—and how even the most experienced coaches rethink and reshape their views on key concepts over time, featuring:
- Loren Landow
- Danny Foley
- Tom Tombleson
- Stacey Hardin
Theme: Programming
Guiding Question: "What matters most in programming?"
8-8:30am - Daniel Guzman - Genes Over Guesswork: The No-Brainer Blueprint For Champions.
8:35-9:15am - Les Spellman - Redefining Fast: How Systems Outperform Drills In Speed Development
9:20-10:00am - John Griffin - Antifragile: Programming With Environmental Constraints.
10:05-10:50am - Matt Price - A Framework for Assessing & Programming Speed for Hockey.
10:55-11:40am - Will Greenberg - "Uncoachable" Athletes: Coaching Across Generations.
12-1.30pm - Roundtable discussion.
Guiding question:
"We work in an industry that is always changing. What do most people misunderstand about change?"
A 90-minute conversation featuring:
- Rachel Balkovec
- Darcy Norman
- David Joyce
FAQs
Yes! We are applying for NSCA & NATA CEUs. More details will follow on the specific details of credits for each organization. Check back here nearer the summit for all the info!
When: June 6th-8th, 2025.
Where: Welsh-Ryan Arena, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
The nearest airport to Welsh-Ryan Arena, Northwestern University in Evanston, IL is O'Hare International Airport (ORD), located approximately 14 miles (22 km) away.
Another option is Midway International Airport (MDW), which is about 27 miles (43 km) away, but O'Hare is the more convenient choice for most travelers due to its proximity and accessibility.
Yes!
We have organized preferred rates with the Hilton Garden Inn, Chicago North Shore/Evanston.
You can access the preferred rates via this link.
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Join us in shaping the future of speed by partnering with an event designed to inspire, connect, and transform.
Align your brand with a conference that prioritizes meaningful impact, innovation, and community. Together, we can create an unforgettable experience for attendees and set a new standard in the field.
Contact Sean Muldoon at sean.muldoon@cruciblemoments.co
The ALTIS Speed Summit is predominantly tailored towards speed in team sports. However, if you coach Track & Field there will still be takeaways relevant for you - just be aware the summit, the content and the speakers will be team sport oriented.
For all inquiries, please contact Sean Muldoon at Sean.muldoon@cruciblemoments.co
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